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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Alexandra S. Levine reports on TikTok’s effort to raise the profile of its creators with a Hollywood-style awards show.

Jeremy Carrasco makes videos under the handle @showtoolsai on TikTok, advocating for AI video literacy and pointing out tells you can look for to see if the videos on your feed are AI generated.

Meta said Tuesday that it will begin testing its Instagram for TV app in the U.S. via Amazon's Fire TV streaming devices.

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram unveiled its first dedicated TV app, which lets users watch the short-form video feature Reels on a larger screen.

Kim Kardashian logged onto TikTok earlier this month and did something new: Tried to sell pajamas, slippers and matching sweat sets like the host of an old-fashioned TV infomercial.

Slop refers to the low-quality content created by artificial intelligence that's showing up across social media.

Reddit filed a legal challenge seeking to either declare the law invalid, or exclude the platform from the provisions of the law

Meta let go of 600 AI employees in October, and former chief AI ... for Apple scoops, consumer tech news and more; Screentime for a front...

From Pop Mart’s Labubus to Shein, Temu and Luckin, Chinese brands have become global consumer favorites and cultural ambassadors. With much of the credit going to TikTok, shoppers are hungry for more. (Source: Bloomberg)

The news that has trickled out has skewed negative. Some new hires from Meta Superintelligence Labs have departed within weeks of arriving. In October...

US President Donald Trump’s top trade negotiator said he’s concerned by the European Union’s follow-through on pledges to regulate American tech giants fairly, just days after Elon Musk’s X social network was slapped with a €120 million ($140 million) fine for violating the EU’s controversial content-moderation law.

Nextdoor Holdings Inc. shares surged as much as 49% early Wednesday, the most in over four years, as the man behind the retail-driven rally in names like Opendoor Technologies and Better Home & Finance Holding Co. took a bullish stance on the neighborhood social media app.

Mark Zuckerberg is getting personally involved in day-to-day work and pivoting Meta Platforms Inc.’s focus to an artificial intelligence model it can make money from. Ed Ludlow reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, months into building one of the priciest teams in technology history, is getting personally involved in day-to-day work and pivoting the company’s focus to an artificial intelligence model customers pay to use.

Australia has enacted the world's first ban on social media usage for users under the age of 16, in a move expected to be monitored by global lawmakers.

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Chinese social media and gaming giant Tencent Holdings has pulled out of US media group Paramount Skydance Corp’s takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery to avoid heightened scrutiny of foreign investment in the United States, according to a filing on the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s website. Tencent had pledged US$1 billion as part of Paramount’s December 1 proposal to acquire Warner Bros, but the Shenzhen-based company was removed as a financing partner in Paramount’s latest all-cash...

The European Union won’t be cowed by US attacks on how it polices Silicon Valley firms, the bloc’s competition chief Teresa Ribera warned.

The European Union said Meta Platforms Inc. will offer Facebook and Instagram users an alternative choice that shows fewer personalized ads, potentially heading off another clash with the bloc after the US social media company was hit was a €200 million ($233 million) fine.

Musk's comments come as U.S. government officials step up criticism of the European Union

Musk's comments come as U.S. government officials step up criticism of the European Union

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reminded social media companies that they will be held responsible when a ban on children having accounts takes effect on Wednesday.

Meta has struck AI licensing deals with publications like CNN, Fox News, USA Today, and People Inc., allowing its AI chatbot to source information...

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Netflix’s agreement to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after it completes the planned spinoff of its cable channels. Plus, the European Union Ambassador to the US responds to criticism of the $140 million fine the bloc has levied on Elon Musk’s social media platform X. And HPE CEO, Antonio Neri, discusses the company’s outlook after reporting disappointing 4Q AI server sales. (Source: Bloomberg)

Meta has acquired the startup Limitless, which makes a small, artificial intelligence-powered pendant.

... news on Meta AI, its AI chatbot. Now, when users ask Meta AI news-related questions, it will surface information and links that draw from...

Meta has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers including USA Today, People Inc, CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller,...

Meta on Friday said it has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers ranging from USA Today, People Inc., CNN, Fox News,...

... AI-powered search and an AI assistant. The feature is rolling out ... Shortly after the news broke of Dye's departure, Zuckerberg announced a...

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